[squeak-dev] Some strange behavior

Levente Uzonyi leves at elte.hu
Thu Oct 28 20:27:27 UTC 2010


On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

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> On 28.10.2010, at 21:59, Mateusz Grotek wrote:
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>> 6 * 0.2 CTRL-P 1.2
>> 1.2 - 1 CTRL-P 0.2
>> 6 * 0.2 - 1 CTRL-P 0.2000000000000002
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>> Squeak 4.1 #9957
>>
>> bug or not?
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> Not.

You can find the explanation here: http://floating-point-gui.de/ . If you 
really need exact results, then you can use Fractions:

6 * (1/5) - 1 "===> (1/5)"


Levente

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